Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 459 509
Rank change year-on-year -117 +50 +21
Contract jobs citing Packer 39 37 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.089% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 0.92% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 34
10th Percentile £400 £411 £456
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +4.19% -14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £649
90th Percentile £681 £624 £926
UK median daily rate £538 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.82% -12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,885 4,027 4,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 15.71% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 2,689 3,353
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £520
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.92% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 44 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.63 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.34 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.61 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £35.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +57.25% +8.11% -43.48%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -76 20 £650 +13.04% 7
North of England -69 9 £513 +27.33% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £513 - 1
North East -31 3 £500 +24.22% 2
North West -38 2 £575 - 2
South East -67 2 £615 +41.38% 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) GitHub
3 16 (41.03%) Azure
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (17.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
7 7 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (15.38%) Azure AKS
9 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (12.82%) AWS KMS
9 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (12.82%) Serverless
10 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (10.26%) Datadog
11 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
12 2 (5.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Firewall
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) WAN
4 3 (7.69%) PCoIP
4 3 (7.69%) SSL
5 2 (5.13%) DHCP
5 2 (5.13%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (5.13%) VPN
6 1 (2.56%) HTTP
6 1 (2.56%) Network Security
6 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) Redis
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.95%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (20.51%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Network Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Lead
10 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
10 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.69%) OpenGL
2 3 (7.69%) Qt
3 1 (2.56%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
3 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) CUDA
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Linux
2 19 (48.72%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) DevOps
2 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 24 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (53.85%) Agile
5 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Configuration Management
7 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (17.95%) Observability
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (10.26%) High Availability
10 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 4 (10.26%) SIEM
10 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
11 3 (7.69%) Change Management
11 3 (7.69%) Coaching
11 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
11 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 3 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) PowerShell
2 13 (33.33%) Bash
3 11 (28.21%) Python
4 5 (12.82%) C#
4 5 (12.82%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) Groovy
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) C
7 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) SC Cleared
1 22 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.69%) CCNA
2 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.56%) RHCA
4 1 (2.56%) RHCE
4 1 (2.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (5.13%) Squid
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (82.05%) Terraform
2 29 (74.36%) Ansible
3 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.26%) Consul
4 4 (10.26%) Puppet
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.13%) SCCM
7 1 (2.56%) Argo
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Dynatrace
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.82%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) PagerDuty
4 3 (7.69%) NVIDIA
4 3 (7.69%) Trend Micro
5 2 (5.13%) HP
5 2 (5.13%) Leostream
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.13%) Ping Identity
5 2 (5.13%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) Ariba
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Tanium
6 1 (2.56%) Tenable